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The Lake Highlands Wildcat Wrestlers squared off against a tough opponent, Arlington Martin, in their opening Wrestling Dual of the season on Tuesday 11/8. The young LHHS team faced a seasoned opponent with some national experience. LHHS lost the dual 53-13.

Standout performances of the Dual were:

Senior Jason Graham at 152 lbs with a pin

Senior Preston Gunther with a win at 160 lbs

Senior Daniel Kidd with a major decision win at 120 lbs.

The JV faced off against the Martin JV team before the varsity dual. Standouts were wrestlers David Martinez, Gabe Olivio, Jesus Garcia, and Billy Brothers all with hard fought wins. A special shout out to Jesus getting a monster pin in the 3rd period

The Lake Highlands wildcat wrestlers dominated the District tournament with a total of 281 points. Second place Highland Park was the closest with 217.5.

Individual District champions were: Seniors Socrates Salinas, Dominique Neros, and Twquan Clayton, Junior Angel Hernandez and Sophomores Ian Stroud, Max Hayter and Colt Brock. Second place finishers Juniors Daniel Kidd and Chris Kinsella and Sophomore Andrew Nixon. Third place finishers were Senior Jack Smitham Junior Carlos Zumwalt and Sophomores Ty Meara and Miguel Baltazar. Two distinct data points go to Ian Stroud for scoring the most points for the team and Miguel Baltazar for the most pins in the least amount of time.

All 14 Wildcats advance to the Regional Tournament this coming weekend (2/12-13) in Allen. Go Cats!

Lake Highlands Wrestling wrapped up their regular season Saturday 1/30 with dual matches against Plano East and Carrolton RL Turner. LHHS won both duals with comfortable margins: LHHS defeated RL Turner 74-3 and Plano East 60-21.

Now the attention turns to post season. District Championships will be held at Richardson High School this coming Saturday 2/6. LHHS will be defending their district title and advancing their 14 varsity wrestlers to the Regional Tournament on 2/12-13 in Allen.

The JV team had a great tournament as well. First place finishers were Senior Joseph Nixon, Junior Omar Cardenas, and Sophomore Dylan Ghoreishi. Second place finishers were Junior John Allen, and Sophomores Brandon Anderson and Brad Dabrowski. Third place finishers were Juniors Jason Graham, Tyler Mathews, and Grey Willis, and Sophomores Tavis Ellington and Ceasar Ortiz and Freshman Brendan Bouldin. Fourth place finisher was Freshman Brandon Garcia.

This coming Saturday (1/30) LHHS will be hosting a meet with Plano East and RL Turner High Schools. Wrestling begins at 9am. Come on out and cheer on the Wildcat Wrestlers as they start to gear up for the post season. District Championships are 2/6 at Richardson High School.

The weekend of 1/1-2 LHHS Wrestlers competed at Grapevine Duals. 20 teams from Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma competed in the tournament.

The LHHS wrestlers had a significant win over Timber Creek (ranked 8th) and several of the LHHS wrestlers had significant wins. Socrates Salinas beat UIL State placer Stephen Dieb in the competition against Highland Park. Senior Dominique Neros and Junior Daniel Kidd went undefeated for the tournament.

This past weekend LHHS Wildcats faced off against Frisco Liberty and Irving McArthur. LHHS came out on top of both competitions and now have their focus set on the State Team Dual Tournament this coming weekend in Houston, TX.

The Lake Highlands Wildcat wrestlers dominated the action once again at the Takedown Alzheimer’s Duals hosted at Keller High School. The varsity team defeated Keller, Liberty Christian and Rockwall High School in head to head competition.

The Lake Highlands Wildcat wrestlers dominated the action yesterday (Dec 12) at JJ Pearce High School when they defeated their Richardson opponents Berkner (78-0) , JJ Pearce (72-4) and Richardson High School (71-9) . 11 out of 14 varsity wrestlers went undefeated for the day: Seniors Socrates Salinas, Domonique Neroes and Twquan Clayton, Juniors Daniel Kidd, Angel Hernandez and Carlos Zumwalt and Sophomores Ian Stroud, Andrew Nixon, Max Hayter, Colt Brock and Miguel Baltazar. JV had a strong showing with a 30-8 record on the day. 12 out of 18 JV wrestlers when undefeated at the tournament!

On Friday night LHHS dominated against rival Highland Park with a 57-12 win.

Coming up this Saturday (Dec 19th) the Wildcats return to the Keller 6 way duals to defend their 1st place finish from last year.

The Lake Highlands Wrestling team hosted 15 teams this past weekend for the Tri-state classic. The ‘Cats walked away with a score of 236 points as the tournament champions. This was a true team effort with 11 of 14 starters placed in the top 4 of the tournament.
Taking 1st were seniors Socrates Salinas, and Domonique Neroes, juniors Daniel Kidd, Carlos Zumwalt, and Angel Hernandez and Sophmore Miguel Baltazar. Placing 2nd was Senior Tw’quan Clayton and Sophomores Max Hayter and Ty Meara. Placing 3rd was Sophomore Colt Brock. Placing 4th was Junior Chris Kinsella.
The JV team had a great day as well. 17 Lake Highlands Wrestlers placed in the top 4 spots of their respective weight classes. Placing 1st were Senior Joseph Nixon and Juniors Tha Lian, John Allen and Omar Cardenas. Placing 2nd was Senior Travis West and Juniors Grey Willis and Preston Gunter and Freshman Isaac Solorio. Placing 3rd was Junior Jason Graham and Freshman Brenden Bouldan. Placing 4th were Sophomores Chris Thompson, Luca Gisella, and Austin Maldonado and Freshman Alec Marquez.
The team is having a great season with Dual wins over Hebron, Justin Northwest, Skyline and Irving as well as winning the Richardson Roundup Tournament with all 14 starters finishing in the top 4. Coming up this Friday (Dec 11th) the team faces off against district rival Highland Park at Highland Park High School. The wrestlers would love to have a large energetic crowd to help them beat Highland Park. See you on Friday at 6:00.